Nikola Tesla | Mental Health & Personality 

Why does genius go hand in hand with insanity?

@@nicholasp.capobiancojr.1772 To change the world one must think differently, deviating from the norm provides new and challenging ways of progressing as well as new and challenging ways of living which can easily be classed as insanity.

@@nicholasp.capobiancojr.1772 And myopia

Walking was the secret to his success. There is no better way to generate ideas. But don't tell anyone ssshhhhh

If Tesla is called the man that invented the Twentieth Century then it is incorrect. That honour should go to all scientists leading up to the Twentieth Century. Faraday is the one that discovered the principles for magnetics that lead to the electric motor and that light was indeed electricity. Nothing Tesla did is in use today. He went the wrong direction in the transmission of power. Not completely wrong like Edison, but his ideas never were put to use. He wasn't alone either in the ideas he had another person had the same idea for the transmission of electricity and did it better and more efficient. Was he a good showman, sure but was he doing anything new? Only as stunts. Who invented the cage that he would get into to do his stunts? True, he didn't murder any animals in his demonstrations, as far as I know. Yes he was smart, he was goddamn smart but he didn't invent the Twentieth Century, not one person could be given that honour because all scientists stand on the shoulders of giants. Then again he was an inventor out for personal wealth, he wasn't a scientist. Almost forgot, he died while mourning the loss of his favourite pigeon. cuckoo cuckoo I love my cats, I don't die from heartbreak when they die nor will I if my wife dies before me. If we use human history as a guide.

Tesla is my hero as well. I would love an even deeper dive into his life here but for a condensed version it’s pretty decent. I wish he would’ve given his opinion on the way in which Tesla received the knowledge of his inventions through a bright light or dream that would pop into his head like God/higher being was planting these ideas at seemingly Radom times. I also would like to here what the doc makes of Tesla believing that he had reached alien life on Mars through radio waves and he could communicate with them to a small degree.

​@@dylan4652 i came across some videos claiming that he was into hinduism (i did not check it out). some documentaries/movies about tesla also showed that he was 'seeing' solutions to whatever technical issue he was trying to resolve (i've never before heard of him having hallucinations though). (i em an el. engineer myself, studied back in good old former yugoslavia, atheist, worked as sw engineer for many years, and interestingly enough, am looking into all things spiritual/magical these days. based on everything i'm hearing and having briefly looked at the core hindu concepts, it might be possible that theory about tesla having visions and talking to spirits is indeed true. who knows, we can only speculate..... all i know is that he used his genius for the benefit of all - in the end that's the only thing that matters.

@Imjust Observing - At what point did I say "Tesla invented alternating current."?

​@@pameti.dragoblagoany news? 🙏

Yes here was! One of favorite geniuses .

Sir Isaac Newton once said: "By far my greatest accomplishment was that I die a virgin." More than likely Schizotypal as well???

Agreed.

Yes

@Magnum Stud That,s the other name for Schizophrenia

He is to scientists. He has an SI unit ( magnetic flux density) named after him which is about the highest honour you can get in the physics community.

Considering he was exploited by Edison and Edison stole his intellectual property and passed it off as his own genius

Edison did come out with some useful inventions himself, arguably less significant than Tesla's but it's also clear that Edison was the more successful entrepreneur and took great pains to manage his public image. Tesla did not share these talents, or at least not to the same extent. Tesla's proposal to power America with alternating current was of course vindicated as opposed to Edison's direct current power scheme, which proved to be all but unpractical on a large scale. I guess that almost balances them out.

I agree!

Tesla was the true genius.

Chronic sleep deprivation?

@@kathryn6402 Not sure... Dr. Grande mentioned that his father was possibly schizophrenic. Occam's razor would say schizophrenia or possibly a unique case of synesthesia?

@@doit9854 ok I had to google that one 😂

Einstein was also a visual person and conducted thought experiments and received "down loads" through" images or scenes such as riding along side a beam of light which in that case time would stop. In some ways time is a result of light movement relative to " solid" objects. Move at light speed and aging stops! This can also be accomplished through meditation! When one vibrates at a very high frequency we can " overcome" the density of the physical body, and expand or bridge the deeper lighter and faster frequencies of the astral plane and beyond! The entire cosmos is within! Follow the breath to go inward!

@@erikparent8176 I can’t meditate so looks I’ll just have to learn run very fast 🤣

he was offered a percentage profit of every watt (I assume, sorry, my physics is bad!) produced by his AC, but he declined it and thus saved Westinghouse. If he hadn't declined... imagine, he would have been the RICHEST person in the world EVER to live. But that was not his goal in life :)

This is true and also very compelling. He cared more for the next amazing discovery, improvement, or invention to this end that he cared only for money inasmuch as it could further his research. He was obsessed with solving whatever challenge lay between himself and his professional goal of the moment. Unfortunately, that goal continually moved and stayed (would stay) forever just out of his reach. In other words, he would never be satisfied. I think it drove him ever further out of his mind.

Agree.

Not madness just anger, every one else was mad and he knew it.

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.” -Aristotle

It’s a sad and misunderstood line😢

Todd Grande is nothing short of a genius himself ☺️ Always head on the nail🎉and always spreads laughter

Interesting him and edison must have been great together. Suprised they both lived

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I get it! The joke was that Tesla is dead!

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@@Goomatora what?

Agreed!👍👍

I took the Myers Briggs and it nailed my personality 100%.

Respectfully, How does one "nail" the MB's test? I'm sorry but I should have watched the video first perhaps the nature of the Myers-Briggs test was discussed so I would know I've taken at least one I know for sure but I'm sure I've taken more than one you're so popular I took a personality test for the most likely careers I would be good at while I was attending Brandeis University as one of 12 adult students in your new Brandeis adult scholar program which allowed the student to be able to take less than a full course load and I took three out of four courses and commuted as a single parent on afdc which was forced upon me from Worcester to Waltham I got to tell you I really worked hard and my son never took second place. I digress I didn't really need to take the test you know it wasn't like I was very aware of who I was and why I was there and Friends station what my career goals were and had been for a long time they emulated but typically always within the same kind of a category seven categories and I took one of those hundred question. It only fill in the blank really quickly questions like I love to be a car mechanic very gradual or forget about it you know I love to read and two little kids la la la. The two administrators of the chest kicked off the Myers-Briggs are Briggs Myers test by in a mention that there was some kind of right right brain left brain considerations factored into the test and it was merely a barometer with a hundred questions it was a formula well put together I wasn't surprised that it at all of the answers that it came up with it just I wasn't there to get any answers that was there because I love to take test and surveys and personality quizzes and stuff like that but they did say is that in all of your years administering that test and I guess they were speaking about secondhand information from other Myer Briggs Representatives is that no one who takes the test indicates a 50:50 right brain left brain you know that equal capacity people always typically even if it's really close and is closer the numbers are it's it's still a barometer but you could be 51% left braided 43% typically with a broader a broader margin + margin of error. forgive me I hardly slept last night so I'm really digressing okay so I buried the lede again here's the thing they told me as soon as I guess they had their whip through tabulating the results of each person's test would buy one cuz you could leave when you were done they stopped me as I was leaving who who and told me that they just wanted to let me know that I was the only person he ever been it came up exactly 50/50 on right brain left brain. it is that spirit I say go figure! anyway unless I really miss something which I think I already explained in the beginning how does one nail the particular test that you're talkin about?

@@barbaradavaz1010 He said IT nailed his personality, not that HE nailed the test.

You had 44 likes and 4 replies, so I had to break the cycle...🌺😇🌺

I guess he didn't have a cat 😂

@@malina957 I was thinking just the same!! 🤣

@@Miss_Wonderful1 😄

Rotfl

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Or just don’t get the chance to show their abilities... like, they are shepherds, or need to work to keep the family going, etc.

Dane Tesla was off the top of my head about 12 when he died. Nikola was 5. Dane was considered the more intelligent of the brothers (I wrote a (bad) sci-fi novel on Tesla (the Nuclear Tourist)

Intelligence correlates with health, so though I'm sure a lot of geniuses have died before their time, on average, it is less likely they did so. Thus more geniuses have lived long and productive lives than you would statistically expect. Would be interesting to investigate this.

What about his sister? Were they also geniuses?

@@shojinryori Yep, it almost happened to Sir Isaac Newton!

@Rejane Oliveira, I think I agree with you on this!

Those who took advantage of him should be exposed and criticised

@ LOOOOOOOOOOL

I wonder if it might not be from almost dying of cholera when he was young. Cholera is a bacteria spread in unsafe food and water, so some of his germaphobic tendencies make a lot of sense (like having food boiled and frequent hand washing) during an era when unsafe food and water were commonplace.

Almost dying of cholera might do that to you!

Yep, germaphobe.

I hadn’t heard this before, but I love it. Einstein was right on!

@@LizbetPCB Einstein had so many witty quotes. The man's mind was a goldmine, not just for physics.

@@babblingalong7689 The man was a fraud and thief. Tesla knew this and called him out openly as a fraud. Einstein was a P.O.S and KNEW to give respect to a man who could entirely defeat him in a debate about physics or science, and prove Einstein for the fraud he was/is

Einstein was probably being sarcastic.

StandLegWeak . Or jealous.

Awesome comment but there's nothing typical about Nikola Tesla. As a quite typical INTJ myself, I dont think Tesla could relate to mundane society. I have a hard enough time of it as it is.

@@dasein9980 Yes, this is certainly true. I’m mostly referring to his peculiar behaviors that all INTJS(myself included) can relate to on some level.

@@dasein9980 Also, I may or may not have peeped your account-If you’re interested in narcissism-the channel ‘Live abuse free’ is excellent.

@@AmandaArcturus will do 😏

He was most likely intp

Yes, please analyze Paul Rubins as Pee wee herman! We know he was loner and a rebel with The best bike ever!

@@erikparent8176 asking the important questions. I too would love to hear about his take on Paul vs PeeWee 😂

Sigmond Frued.

@@lia2523 yes, dr. Grande must research many hours of Pee Wee's Play house to uncover the real truth! Watch out for the "secret" word!

@@sweetpea6843 ah yes! Good selection! Very interesting indeed!

"HE INVENTED FREE ELECTRICITY FROM THE AIR!!!!!!"

I'm surprised we still havnt seen whatever blueprints Tesla gave Trumps grandfather. My guess is starlink/space force ish.

One story that is true is that he was friends with Mark Twain. Twain had lots of close friends, of course, but Tesla considered Twain his only real friend.

@Julez O'Neil bit of a no substance answer? Time travel ? Wormhole displacement quantum physics ?

@@chrisgould101 The trump relative was trump’s paternal uncle. Tesla gave nothing to him. He was part of a team of military academics who raided Tesla’s'apartment following 6Tesla’s death and before his family was notified of his death. I imagine the point was to take and they did anything Tesla might have invented that they could weapon or. Tesla was a genius but not a capitalist. Tesla wanted the world to have free electricity. Edison stole from Tesla. Free just was not happening within Edison, Westinghouse or U.S. government.I am Serbian and there is greater information to be found in Belfast. He was quite and truthful man which did not go over well in the industrial and money oriented U.S.A. Such an honest and interesting man and far a head of his time. Einstein was humble and correct in reference to Tesla being the most important and knowledgeable man of their time. Tesla is a hero for me.

he also refused to speak to any woman who was wearing pearls. i think his logic on women was a lot more skewed than people want to realize... the first incel, perhaps. idk

@@comfym3850 I want to see how he’d react to women with hairy ball necklaces now

Loving a pigeon doesn't mean you're lonely, it can, but it's not always the case. I have a pigeon husband, yet I am not lonely or anything. Of course there's absolutely nothing sexual in our relationship! Pigeons are SO loving that it's impossible not to love them back. Of course they are lovely only when you give them a chance to be so, of you're nice and kind to them.❤️ I have been rescuing wild pigeons for years and they are the best. If you're interested, you can go to my Instagram page: Pidge_The_Pigeon

He was not misanthropic. He offered a device to his native country Yugoslavia to fight off the German N..is in WW2 (but it was already too late).

@@lunasanja4574 You can be misanthropic and still have a mind to help the greater good. He was a Serbian from Croatia and is buried in Belgrade Serbia, what's Yugoslavia got to do with him?

The world has an order and must always unfold exactly the way it does. Live without regrets and learn from " mistakes". I'll see you in the astral plane!( as will everyone else!)

I have always wondered what would happen if I could go to Vienna in 1913 and offer a certain starving artist a fat scholarship to study art in America...

Kind of cryptic .

kinda retarded considering some prophets prohibit idol and image worshipping

@ Do you have aphantasia?

Frederick Douglass who was also a friend of Mark Twain, who was a best friend of Nikola Tesla.

My friend randomly said something about pet foxes on the phone, then I start getting pet fox suggestions

@@gjh9299 It’s not a coincidence and has something to do with sharing an internet connection or other search related query tied to both of the devices you were using.

PATRIOT Act working as intended by the CIA & NSA.

@@GoogleAccount-ev2hq 1984 ‘Newspeak.’

The all-knowing algorithm code lives, breathes and grows stronger with every search 😉😆

Ive no idea why Dr Grande would criticise the junior therapist for NOT calling out the career criminal compulsive liar. But Grande does have a bit of ego, and i suspect theres a bit of power play as in "you're my junior and I would have done it like xyz"

If you believe the earth has a memory field,a local Akashic records,all past inventions or technologies can be downloaded into your subconscious mind,if your thinking mind can quiet down enough to see them.

Tesla je rodjen u Smiljanima ( nominativ Smiljane).

@@jfkaufmann8025 it is NOT "Smiljane" in the nominative, but "Smiljan". Dr Grande just mispronounced it, but got the place right.

Dasha, thank you for the reminder. I'm right behind you to ask for this case. Sadly even with all the information and expose available online still many people don't hear or don't get it.

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@@spiritmatter1553 MGTOW? I am a feminist and have zero tattoos and I don't hate men.

I love Lagerfield because he left his fortune to his cat

@@gjh9299 not exactly: there are 7 people named in his will. One of them is in charge of Choupette and it's not the largest beneficiary. Btw, it's "Lagerfeld", originally was "Lagerfeldt"

both interesting, for entirely different reasons.

@@quester09 I only pick worthy ones. I could add many more but I don't want to overwhelm him.

Margaret Cho's commentary on Karl's fan was kinda funny.

True.

So did I, but then again my cat is laying on me and while she was a neighborhood rescue, she has a significant amount of Persian in her. I understand scary hairballs.

The problem is, Hollywood would screw the movie up. Better an indy company does a film on Tesla.

Anyone BUT Hollywood!

You aren't alone in having a crush on Tesla. I think he's gorgeous. Tsar Nicholas as well. Cheers! 💖🐶

Same here ❤️❤️

Patton or Macarthur, both strange personalities.

Yes absolutely......

Thank you! Tesla was justified in what he said about women in his day!

In 1924, Nikola Tesla was asked why he never married? His answer was this: "I had always thought of woman as possessing those delicate qualities of mind and soul that made her in her respects far superior to man. I had put her on a lofty pedestal, figuratively speaking, and ranked her in certain important attributes considerably higher than man. I worshipped at the feet of the creature I had raised to this height, and, like every true worshiper, I felt myself unworthy of the object of my worship. But all this was in the past. Now the soft voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished. In her place has come the woman who thinks that her chief success in life lies on making herself as much as possible like man - in dress, voice, and actions, in sports and achievements of every kind. The world has experience many tragedies, but to my mind the greatest tragedy of all is the present economic condition wherein women strive against men, and in many cases actually succeed in usurping their places in the professions and in industry. This growing tendency of women to overshadow the masculine is a sign of a deteriorating civilization. Practically all the great achievements of man until now have been inspired by his love and devotion to woman. Man has aspired to great things because some woman believed in him, because he wished to command her admiration and respect. For these reasons he has fought for her and risked his life and his all for her time and time again. Perhaps the male in society is useless. I am frank to admit that I don't know. If women are beginning to feel this way about it - and there is striking evidence at hand that they do - then we are entering upon the cruelest period of the world's history. Our civilization will sink to a state like that which is found among the bees, ants, and other insects - a state wherein the male is ruthlessly killed off. In this matriarchal empire which will be established, the female rules. As the female predominates, the males are at her mercy. The male is considered important only as a factor in the general scheme of the continuity of life. The tendency of women to push aside man, supplanting the old spirit of cooperation with him in all the affairs of life, is very disappointing to me." Galveston Daily News, Galveston, Texas, page 23. August 10, 1924. Nikola Tesla He was right.

@@LaMaestra2102 Well, granted, he was wrong about one thing. Turns out you don't need to "ruthlessly k1ll off men"...men will kill themselves.

Yeah, but disgust is negatively correlated. Go figure 🤔

@@kathryn6402 I never said anything about disgust

The higher in the iq you get the more eccentric the person is like very eccentric and odd things about them.

@@kiwiconnection3580 Sorry - that comment wasn’t meant to be in disagreement with you. I actually actually found it interesting because, on one hand Tesla had those OCD traits which can correlate with high IQ as you point out, but on the other hand he had the extreme aversion to germs and obsession with physical purity (which aligns with what psychs call “disgust”). I find that really interesting as disgust is correlated with lower IQ, yet he was clearly a genius. I was simply making that observation 😊

@@kathryn6402 oh I see. In some ways it makes sense to see disgusting a negative light,yet currently that has been twisted to criticize those who are disgusted by disgusting behaviour (such as narcissistic abuse)

Howard Huges, great idea! How about Charles Lindbergh? Loved that you did Tesla!

@@jillhoward1879 yeah.

Yes definitely! 👍

@The Real Deal Wow! I thought I was like the only one asking, Well that feels great.

@Joan Crawford Love Howard hughes and there is SOOO much going on with his OCD and how he used people and ran over them (sometimes literally) but contributed so much to mankind with airplane safety, internet satellites, and medical funding. You have good taste!

lol

Busted! 🤣🤣🤣

Hahahaha

The first and third word found at the start of every fairytale.

Bert,the extrovert! Ernie the introvert!